This cottage was the summer residence of Chautauqua’s co-founder, Lewis Miller. The oldest permanent building at Chautauqua, the cottage was prefabricated in Akron, Ohio, and shipped to Chautauqua. It was reassembled just in time to host the President of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant, in 1875. The rustic cottage overlooked the site of Chautauqua’s original amphitheater and tented campgrounds, now called Miller Park. For many summers it also housed famed inventor Thomas Edison and his wife, Mina – the daughter of Lewis Miller. Mina, who lived until 1947, became a Chautauqua trustee. In 1922, she renovated the home, opening its interior spaces to her expansive private gardens. It is still owned by the Miller family. This image features the Miller Cottage as the focal point of an atmospheric landscape. I use the early morning light to lead the eye from the illuminated trees at left towards the softly glowing balcony on the second floor of the cottage. I made this image to express a passage through time, carrying us back to Chautauqua’s origins.